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August 23, 2006

Book Bag Bleg

One of the many things I need to acquire before school starts in September is a new bag. I'm hoping that someone can suggest a nice one. Here are the requirements:

  1. Must be a safe place to put a nice laptop. This includes bags which will comfortable fit a laptop inside of a nice laptop sleeve, but that's not what I prefer.

  2. Must hold books. Several at a time.

  3. Must be comfortable walking, and on a bicycle. My (limited) experience with a (crappy) messenger bag on a bicycle was thoroughly unpleasant. But I think messenger bags look nicer than backpacks in a lot of ways, so I'm open to ideas

  4. Must not look hideous.

  5. Room for things like gym clothes and a thermos of coffee a plus.

  6. May not be the Considerable Embarassment. Ruth's getting one of those.

Please help! If no one helps, terrible things happen to these bunnies. I'm also interested in advice about which bags to steer clear of, if you have had very bad luck with one.

Posted by todd at August 23, 2006 2:22 PM

Comments

How is anyone going to advise anything but a crumpler bag?

Meanwhile, you should have boarded the beer4bags bandwagon before it left the station.

(and I shouldn't have dropped my beer4bags iPod case under a train. oh well.)

Posted by: tony at August 23, 2006 10:58 PM

I got a cargo bag from waterfield last year. I was disappointed by it in many ways.

  • it doesn't stand upright when fully loaded
  • the metal rings on the sleeve scratch my PB
  • the velcro scratches my hand when I reach inside the bag
  • the paragliding buckle for which i paid extra works poorly

I've thought about this so much over the past year that I'm going to blog the shit out of it tonight and send waterfield a link. Good luck finding something that doesn't suck.

Posted by: Jurvis at August 24, 2006 10:49 AM

Not the bunnies... nooooooo!

My only input is that I prefer backpack style to shoulder bag... but that's 'cause I'm a weakling and shoulder bags hurt.

Posted by: Erin at August 26, 2006 2:44 PM

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